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Two old fellows were out sunning themselves at the Socialist Golden Age Naturist Camp one summer afternoon. Says one to the other: “Have you read Marx?”
“Yes,” says his pal. “I think it’s the cane furniture.”
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The Alzheimer Society of Alberta is looking for help and here’s how you can give it. On Sept. 21, make a donation with every cup of coffee you drink. Or for that matter, host a coffee break for Alzheimer Disease.
According to the Alzheimer Society, this will be the ninth annual ‘Host a Coffee Break’ fundraising event. The society is looking for volunteers and organizations to host their own coffee break event. Some who are already on board and will be collecting donations with cups of coffee served are the Alberta Credit Unions, Royal Canadian Legion, Orders of the Eastern Star and Joey’s Only.
Alzheimer Disease is a progressive and degenerative brain disease that can affect one in 13 Canadians over the age of 65. In Alberta, 28,000 people have been diagnosed.
For more information visit alzheimer.ca.
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A cash reward is on the line for anyone who finds and returns a missing engagement ring. The description of where it was lost is a bit vague, but here it is:
At Devonshire Beach at the first public parking lot after beach house with ‘invited guests only’ sign. The ring is white gold with a heart on each side of the main stone. According to the RCMP, it holds ‘more sentimental value than cash value,’ but nevertheless the owner is offering a cash reward. Call 1-800-222-8477 or the local detachment if you have information.
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It’s a small world. The other weekend, while attending a family reunion in Fort. St. John B.C., we met a woman named June Sykes who asked if we knew Joanne Nordbye here in Slave Lake. Well of course we do! Turns out they went to school together an unspecified number of years ago in some town or other over Vermilion way. We promised not to publish any of those stories about Joanne and we’re stickin’ by it. Just kidding!
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So the graduating class over at Roland Michener Secondary is getting ready to make the grand march out of their high school years and into the great beyond. And we’d like to be the first to tell them congrats, all the best and all that, but remember grads the town where you spent the best years of your life --and don’t forget to write.
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We had a visit from another face from the past last week when Peggy Roberts (former executive director of the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre and her daughter Chicken Lips (actually after all these years we discovered her real name is Rayna -- joking) who were in the area to help at a powwow at Driftpile.
Peggy continues to be wildly successful at what ever she choses to do, and is currently the senior advisor for assisted housing, CMHC in Edmonton.